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Remember Baudrillard
Scott McLemee takes a look back at the postmodern thinker and intellectual playboy who inspired "The Matrix."
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How to Help Adjuncts
Gwendolyn Bradley offers suggestions for administrators or chairs who want to improve working conditions for contingent faculty members.
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Making Graduation Rates Matter
No need to wait for a new database of student records, says Clifford Adelman. A few revisions now can produce a fuller and more honest measure of degree completion.
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The Elusive 'It'
I’m in my 29th year of community college work -- nearly three decades of completed service and the happy land...
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The Music Industry's 'Spring Offensive'
This afternoon, in a Congressional office building, Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.), chairman of the House of Representatives Judiciary Subcommittee on...
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From Grub Street to the Ivory Tower (and Back)
Getting from academe to the publishing world isn't easy, but Scott McLemee finds some grad students who just might make it.
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Teaching Without Textbooks
They aren't only too expensive, they are boring and your students will learn more without them, writes Rob Weir.
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Richard J. Gelles considers the rude way most college committees treat those asked to write external review letters, and offers some suggestions.